The Bluest Eye In her novel The Bluest Eye‚ Toni Morrison emphasizes three major events that are both personal and historical because they affected her at the time when she was writing the novel. She writes about a personal event about a childhood who wanted blue eyes to be beautiful‚ which puzzled her and changed her perception of what real beauty really was and who were the ones considered beautiful or ugly. There were also a couple of historical events that she mentions in the novel that affected
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The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison tell the story of Pecola Breedlove an innocent little girl looking for someone who love her‚ the relationship with her parents is terrible‚ her father rapes her‚ her mother and the rest of the community reject her‚ and she finish talking to an imaginary friend who is in fact the facet of her split personality. The Bluest Eye shows how racism infiltrates and destroys the psychological health of African Americans. In this story‚ Through Pecola‚ Morrison
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Adults‚ older girls‚ shops‚ magazines‚ newspapers‚ window signs – all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed‚ yellow-haired‚ pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured." This quote from the book symbolizes what real "beauty" should look like. White beauty standards take over the lives of black girls and women. Implicit messages that whiteness is superior are everywhere‚ including the white baby doll given to Claudia‚ Shirley Temple‚ the concept that light-skinned Maureen is cuter than
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The Blue Bouquet Millions of people around the word have been in a situation that has transitioned them from innocence to experience. In this story a boy wakes up to go for a walk outside‚ after not listening to the boardinghouse owner‚ and ended up going through a horrible experience. He transitioned from feeling safe in his little town‚ to feeling a sense of horror. In “The Blue Bouquet” by Octavio Paz‚ readers must realize that people go through lots of experiences in their life time‚ good
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loves the head of a dandelion" (Morrison 35). "They are ugly. They are weeds" (Morrison 38). Pecola‚ the main character from the novel The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ compares herself to the dandelions: ugly and unwanted. Pecola is raised with no sense of self-esteem or self-value. She is a black girl with nappy hair and dark eyes. She yearns for blue eyes‚ the mark of beauty in the United States during the 1940s. She lives a life of tumult and ugliness. Pecola portrays happier versions of her life
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In Toni Morrison’s book‚ The Bluest Eye‚ the character Pecola Breedlove is a passive‚ young and quiet girl who lives a hard life; her parents are constantly physically and verbally fighting. Throughout the book‚ Pecola is reminded continuously of how ugly she is‚ which fuels her aspiration to be white with blue eyes. Pecola‚ a poor black girl‚ is compelled to believe that she is‚ in fact‚ ugly. Tortured and tormented by almost everyone she knows‚ the identity of the protagonist‚ Pecola Breedlove
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The Bell Jar‚ by Sylvia Plath‚ explores the symbolic representation of the emotional state of being depressed and failing to find meaning in life. The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ demonstrates the fact that beauty is socially constructed causing certain races to be shut off. The setting of each novel will be contrasted in terms of its influence on society‚ while internal conflict and symbolism will be compared. Plath’s and Morrison’s novels occur during the same time period‚ ranging from the 1940s
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Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant Facilitators : Yip Khai Biau (ymike27@hotmail.com) & Lieu Yoke Sun Group/Presentation Title Agilent Restricted Date ##‚ 200X Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) Introduction to BOS BOS Tools : Strategy Canvas & E.R.R.C. Awakening : As-Is Strategy Canvas Exploration : Reconstruct Market Boundaries Strategizing : To-Be Strategy Canvas Actualization : Identify actions to actualize the strategies
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Shades of Blue Blue is calming. It can be strong and steadfast or light and friendly. Almost everyone likes some shade of the blue in their life. Mr. Toastmaster‚ Fellow Toastmasters and Dear Guests Intro A natural color‚ from the blue of the sky‚ it is a universal color. Its cool‚ calming effect makes time pass more quickly and it can help you sleep. It’s a good color for bedrooms. At the negative side‚ too much blue could dampen spirits though. In many diverse cultures blue is significant
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The Search for Blue Eyes Racialised Beauty in The Bluest Eye Though there have been many steps towards equality in today’s society‚ America‚ as a whole‚ will not reach it until races could be equal in everything. But America is still a race dominated culture‚ and mostly a white dominated culture. In this culture‚ society looks up to a racialised beauty‚ where beauty is defined in the terms of white beauty‚ or the physical features most white people have. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison tells
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